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Local Boy Hit in Head by Falling Tree Dies

By on March 1, 2013

THAT 10-YEAR OLD BURLINGTON BOY WHO WAS STRUCK BY A FALLING TREE LAST SUNDAY MORNING ON STARR’S CAVE ROAD, HAS DIED.

THE THIELEN FUNERAL HOME IS IN CHARGE OF FINAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR GARRETT BROCKWAY.

 

DES MOINES COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY GARRETT’S DAD…BRUCE…WAS REMOVING A DEAD TREE WITH A MINI-EXCAVATOR, WHEN THE TREE FELL AND KNOCKED OVER A SECOND TREE.  THE SECOND TREE THEN KNOCKED DOWN A THIRD TREE, WHICH HIT GARRETT IN THE HEAD. 

 

GARRETT’S DEATH HAS BEEN RULED AN ACCIDENT.